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Wednesday, August 29, 2007 12:00 AM

Miss dumb blond USA?

Our national embarrassment over a South Carolina teenage contestant's world knowledge.

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  • Wednesday, August 29, 2007 01:49 PM

    Why defend this woman/girl?

    Even if she didn't hear the questions (and her "because they don't have maps" suggests she did), her answer was akin to a village idiot's. She thinks she can get somewhere by looking like a sex object to old men (and she's probably right). For that, she deserves no award and should take whatever bumps life gives her -- including my citing her as an example of why America can be so ignorant about its own brutality.

    No excuses for Upton.

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